Utah Medical Examiner Act

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Short title.

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Definitions.

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Chief medical examiner -- Appointment -- Qualifications -- Authority.

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County medical examiners.

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Investigation of deaths -- Requests for autopsies.

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Custody by medical examiner.

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Discovery of dead body -- Notice requirements -- Procedure.

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Custody of dead body and personal effects -- Examination of scene of death -- Preservation of body -- Autopsies.

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Certification of cause of death.

Section
10.5

Medical examiner to report death caused by prescribed controlled substance poisoning or overdose.

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Records and reports of investigations.

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Order to exhume body -- Procedure.

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Autopsies -- When authorized.

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Certification of death by attending health care professional -- Deaths without medical attendance -- Cause of death uncertain -- Notice requirements.

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Deaths in medical centers and federal facilities.

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Release of body for funeral preparations.

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Records of medical examiner -- Confidentiality.

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Records of medical examiner -- Admissibility as evidence -- Subpoena of person who prepared record.

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Personal property of deceased -- Disposition.

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Officials not liable for authorized acts.

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Authority of county attorney or district attorney to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony -- Determination if decedent died by unlawful means.

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Additional powers and duties of department.

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Authority of examiner to provide organ or other tissue for transplant purposes.

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Autopsies -- Persons eligible to authorize.

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Burial of an unclaimed body -- Request by the school of medicine at the University of Utah -- Medical examiner may retain tissue for dog training.

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Social security number in certification of death.

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Registry of unidentified deceased persons.

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Testing for suspected suicides -- Maintaining information -- Compensation to deputy medical examiners.

Section
28.5

Psychological autopsy examiner.

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Application for permit to render a dead body unavailable for postmortem examination -- Fees.

Section
30

Overdose fatality examiner.